Spacing device for wire fences



SPAGING DEVICE FOR WIRE FENCES.

No. 561,642. Patented-Julie 9, 1896 M2122? fizz/622201". v

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HENRY XV. ALVEY, OF MOORELAND, INDIANA.

SPACING DEVICE FOR WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561 ,642, dated June 9, 1896.

Application filed August 15,1894. fierial No. 520,423. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. ALVEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mooreland, in the county of Henry and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improveiuents in Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a novel spacing device for use in the erection of wire fences, and the object that I have in view is to provide a simple construction by which the line-wires may be spaced apart at the proper intervals from each other, and also to sustain the picket-wire while the same is in the process of application to the line-wires. Iattain these objects in the manner and with mechanism shown and described in the accompanying drawings and specification.

Figure 1 represents a span of my improved fence. Fig. 2 is a front View of a spacing and Fig. 3 is an edge view of said frame. I

Ct a a are the horizontal or line wires of my fence secured to posts or uprights, such as are ordinarily used in the building of wire fences.

b, Fig. 1, represents the pickets, which are formed of wire and embracing each line-wire, as seen at N, and shown in this case with the two ends of said picket terminating and being wound or coiled around the upper linewire, as seen at b.

C, Fig. 2, is a spacing-frame supporting the line-wires while the pickets are being twisted, being provided with a movable tension bar a, mounted in vertical slots at the upper end of uprights c and supported by tension-springs 0 located in said slots, Said tension-bar c is provided at its center with a wire-clamp 0 designed to hold the upper ends of the picketwire while it is being twisted at all the sections between the line-wires.

In the application. of my invention the linewires are all secured to posts at desired distances from each other and corresponding with gage-plates c", which are provided with recesses, within which the line wires rest while the picket is being secured. \Vhen the line wires are all in place, the frame 0 is placed against side of line-wires, each engaging with its corresponding gage-plate, next the picket-wire being bent double at its middle and passed from beneath on each side of the line-wires, the two branches extending on opposite sides some distance above the upper 5 5 line-wire and the extremities of said picketwire being secured in clamp 0 so that the tension springs will hold it up against the lower line-wire. The next step is the twisting of the pickets at each section or space between line-wires. This is accomplished in this case by inserting between the vertical branches of the picket-wire at the lower space betweenline-wires, as at Z), a twisting-bar, by which this section of the picket is twisted, as seen at b. The bar is then introduced in like manner in next higher section and process repeated until all sections are twisted, as seen at b". At each such operation some of the wire extending above upper line-wire and held by clamp c is taken up, and after the upper and last section is twisted the wire yet extending above upper line-wire on each side is separately wound around the latter wire with pliers or otherwise, as seen at h.

It will be seen that in this manner of producing a fence that the pickets may be placed at any distance to suit the purpose, and also when applied it is almost impossible to disturb or move the pickets laterally, so firmly are they looked to the line-wires.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A spacing-frame for applying pickets to line-wires of a fence,provided with a vertically-movable spring-sustained bar, and a picket-clamp carried by said bar, for the purposes described, substantially as set forth.

2. A spacing-frame for applying pickets to the line-wires of a fence, provided with a tension device, and a picket-clamp carried by said tension device, substantially as and for clamp, substantially as and for the purposes described.

HENRY XV. ALVEY. lVitnesses:

W H. Jones, FRANK :MAIN. 

